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title: In the film Ice Age, Manny the mammoth plods through the snow in sha… — Ice Age: real woolly mammoths · tree and pragmatics
description: In the film Ice Age, Manny the mammoth plods through the snow in shaggy fur, with small ears, a short tail and great curling tusks, and he looks like a hairy elephant. Who acts: Manny. A sentence of the lesson «Ice Age: real woolly mammoths» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Ice Age: real woolly mammoths, sentence 0

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In the film Ice Age, Manny the mammoth plods through the snow in shaggy fur, with small ears, a short tail and great curling tusks, and he looks like a hairy elephant.

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**Who acts:** Manny · **What happens:** plod, curl, look · **To what, where:** film, snow

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ice Age: real woolly mammoths» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Manny), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths.lesson:0
# text = In the film Ice Age, Manny the mammoth plods through the snow in shaggy fur, with small ears, a short tail and great curling tusks, and he looks like a hairy elephant.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×5, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
3	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound
4	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	Age	age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Manny	Manny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mammoth	mammoth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	plods	plod	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	shaggy	shaggy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	curling	curl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
28	tusks	tusk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	hairy	hairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plod** | present | Manny | the film |  | the snow |  | in shaggy fur; with small ears and a short tail and great curling tusks | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through snow=Trajectory |
| 2 | **curl** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | present | Manny |  |  |  |  | like a hairy elephant | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths.lesson:0`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×5, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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